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“When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.”
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“A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.”
Source : Tom Wujec (1995). “Five Star Mind: Games and Exercises to Stimulate Your Creativity and Imagination”, Main Street Books
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“I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.”
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“As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.”
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“I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.”
Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press
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“It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.”
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“It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.”
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“I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.”
Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 26, 2011.